Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Jane Williams
JW
's eight books and several periodical publications appeared from the pre-Victorian to the mid-Victorian period in a number of genres, including poetry, literary criticism (of women writers in particular), and an account of her...
1812-1816: Millbank Prison was built at a cost of nearly...
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1812-1816
Millbank Prison was built at a cost of nearly £500,000.
Briggs, John et al. Crime and Punishment in England: An Introductory History. St Martin’s, 1996.
168
Emsley, Clive. Crime and Society in England 1750-1900. 2nd ed., Longman, 1996.
248
February 1952: Wife and Citizen ended publication in Lo...
15 October 1874: James Stansfeld gave a speech at Bristol...
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15 October 1874
James Stansfeld
gave a speech at Bristol strongly in favour of the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts.
Walkowitz, Judith R. ’We Are Not Beasts of the Field’: Prostitution and the Campaign Against the Contagious Diseases Acts, 1869-1886. University of Rochester, 1974.
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Walkowitz, Judith R. Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class, and the State. Cambridge University Press, 1980.
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Walkowitz, Judith R. Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class, and the State. Cambridge University Press, 1980.
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Walkowitz, Judith R. ’We Are Not Beasts of the Field’: Prostitution and the Campaign Against the Contagious Diseases Acts, 1869-1886. University of Rochester, 1974.
117
Butler, Josephine. Personal Reminiscences of a Great Crusade. Hyperion Press, 1989.
68
September 1830: Alfred Tennyson published Poems, Chiefly...
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September 1830
Alfred Tennyson
published Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, his first solo volume publication, containing Mariana.
Wise, Thomas J. A Bibliography of the Writings of Alfred Lord Tennyson. Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1967, 2 Vols.
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2 December 1869: Queen's University of Belfast instituted...
Moody, Theodore William, and James Camlin Beckett. Queen’s, Belfast 1845-1949: The History of a University. Faber and Faber, 1959.
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1891: The London and Paris Ladies' Magazine, edited...
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1891
The London and Paris Ladies' Magazine, edited by Jane Thomas
(which had begun in 1843), ceased publication.
Palmegiano, Eugenia M. Women and British Periodicals, 1832-1867: A Bibliography. Garland, 1976.
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Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
April 1886: The influential Evangelical Nonconformist...
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April 1886
The influential Evangelical Nonconformist British Quarterly Review ceased publication after forty-one years.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
4: 176
17 March 1873: The Oxford, one of London's most popular...
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17 March 1873
The Oxford
, one of London's most popular music halls, reopened after being rebuilt and redesigned.
Cheshire, David F. Music Hall in Britain. David and Charles, 1974.
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February 1920: A report on reorganising the British Civil...
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February 1920
A report on reorganising the BritishCivil Service
(particularly with regard to the gendering of employment and salary scales) was signed by members of the National Whitley Council
. It was published the same year.
“Civil Service National Whitley Council Reorganisation Committee: final report”. BOPCRIS (British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information): Unlocking Key British Government Publications.
23 September 2005: A commission from The Guardian to established...
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23 September 2005
A commission from The Guardian to established poets to write a contemporary nursery rhyme produced mostly little pieces about doom and gloom.
“Are you sitting comfortably?”. Guardian Unlimited, 23 Sept. 2005.
1951: Calling All Women began as an annual newsletter...
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1951
Calling All Women began as an annual newsletter for and about ex-suffragettes.
Donaldson, Margaret. “’The Cultivation of the Heart and the Moulding of the Will . . . ’: The Missionary Contribution of the Society for Promoting Female Education in China, India and the East”. Women in the Church, edited by William J. Sheils and Diana Wood, Basil Blackwell, 1990, pp. 429-42.
434
1924: Mollie Stanley Wrench, as Mrs S. Wrench,...
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1924
Mollie Stanley Wrench
, as Mrs S. Wrench, published her retelling of Stories of Famous Operas, illustrated by T. Peddie
.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Piozzi, Hester Lynch. The Piozzi Letters. Editors Bloom, Edward A. and Lillian D. Bloom, University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses, 1989–2002, 6 vols.
1: 330-1 and nn2-4
1593: The Testament of Cresseid by Robert Henryson...
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1593
The Testament of Cresseid by Robert Henryson
(one of the Scottish Chaucerians) was printed nearly a century after his death; it redraws the character of Chaucer
's fallen heroine.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
His name has sometimes been given as Henderson.
April 1862: The Senate of the University of London voted...
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April 1862
The Senate of the University of London voted against allowing women into their medical degree programme.
Blake, Catriona, and Wendy Savage. The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession. Women’s Press, 1990.
62
1836: The excise duty on paper was reduced from...
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1836
The excise duty on paper was reduced from three pence to a penny halfpenny per pound.
There is disagreement about when this tax reduction actually took place. While T.R. Nevett, in Advertising in Britain: A...
Perhaps late 1803: Mrs Marriott (almost certainly Martha Marriott,...
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Perhaps late 1803
Mrs Marriott (almost certainly Martha Marriott
, 1737-1812, of Mendlesham in Suffolk) published Elements of Religion, Containing a Simple Deduction of Christianity
, from its Source to its Present Circumstances.
Londry, Michael. The Lisle Bamford McEachern Collection.
